This month my new mold is my oval dam mold and then an oval shelf ring mold. As I was going through my glass I found some blue glass and I thought it would be perfect for this mold. I think they turned out really well, I love the transparent. […]
I mentioned in an earlier blog that I am cleaning up my studio. One of the things I had a lot of was glass that I never finished including frit. So I made a several fused glass pendants. These are casted pieces. I had an entire jar of blues and […]
Last month I created a myriad of fused glass projects for the holiday seasons. Two that I finished recently are beautiful so I want to show them off. The first one is a very larch casted fused glass cross. It’s large and thick glass. I fused a wire loop in […]
A few blogs ago I talked about my commercial fused glass soap dishes. The one is for a hotel in California. I made 200 fused glass soap dishes. It was a lot of work. This is tough glass so it’s not your typical fusing schedule or cutting. First I cut […]
In January and February. I blogged about one of my fabulous customers who bought one of my handcrafted fused glass aspens and broke it. I’ve always told my customers if they break a fused glass piece that they buy from me to bring me the pieces and I’ll make them […]
Last month I wrote a blog about a fused glass bowl I made out of the remains of once was a beautiful fused glass Aspen sconce. As I mentioned in that blog that the Aspen was so large (with a little extra glass), I was able to make two bowls. […]
Bullseye glass is so cool they have a myriad of different types of glass that are very interesting. Two very unique types of bullseye glass I want to show off tonight is steel blue and opaline glass. I love the steel blue glass because when you fuse clear glass on […]
During 2014 I wrote blogs each month showing the various awareness ribbons. I created fused glass pieces that can be used as pendants or key chains to represent the various awareness ribbons based on month. As a recap I thought I’d post various pictures […]
I’m so excited about the Fused Glass – Fresh From the Kiln for January that I’m doing it a little early. I’ve wanted to make a fused glass lamp for quite some time and now I have two and can’t […]
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I sure did. I was even able to spend some time in my studio! Wow do I have a few specials fused glass pieces to show you for my December fresh out of […]
I’ve had several items fresh from the kiln however, most of them are items my customers know and love, mainly my aspens! Instead of showing them again I thought I’d show you another fused glass artwork that is more abstract. I think of it as […]
September Fused Glass Birthstone – Sapphire Sapphire is also recognized for 5 and 45 year anniversaries. The name sapphire derives from the Greek sapphirus for blue, in Latin is called sapphirus and in Persian is called yakut-i-asrak. Sapphire has been popular since the Middle Ages. […]
Wow what can I say about this amazing piece. It’s a fused glass crackle art panel and it’s stunning. I made a stand for it but I also ordered a metal frame for it as well. In addition, […]
May 26th 2014 I like the holidays and if you follow my blogs you know I have created fused glass for many holidays including Easter, Valentine’s Day, and Christmas. However for those of you who follow my blog you also know I’m retired […]
